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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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LFF is closed over the Christmas holidays

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 days ago)

We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.

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Celebrities slam privatisation as campaign calls on election candidates to protect NHS

Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2024

“The spirit and the idea of the health service is important and alive today as it ever was, unless we allow it to be run into the ground. So let’s fight for it.”

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Unite the union warns cost of living crisis is far from over as it slams ‘rampant profiteering’

Basit Mahmood
14 February, 2024

“Energy costs are still 80 per cent higher than in 2021.”

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Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2024

The economy is the second most important issue for Britons today

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Here’s what Labour can do to address housing delivery shortfalls in London

Chris Worrall
14 February, 2024

Under Keir Starmer’s pro-growth strategy, density bonuses can be used to balance the impact of locally required mandatory affordable housing requirements, alongside more housing production

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Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2024

“Only Rishi Sunak could travel from an event to meet “ordinary voters” by private jet.”

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Amazon workers strike this week amid union-busting accusations 

Hannah Davenport
13 February, 2024

“Rose’s are red Violet’s are blue. We’re worth 15 quid. What about you,”

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The one fact which shows just how much of a mess the Tories have made of the economy

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2024

People up and down the country are struggling to make ends meet and the only answer the Tories have for them is to ‘work harder’.

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5 ways in which the Tories wrecked the economy

Hannah Davenport
13 February, 2024

A look at the state of the UK economy under Tory rule

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New ONS figures show Tories ‘legacy of ill health’, says union body

Hannah Davenport
13 February, 2024

Labour market stats reveal historically high levels of people off work due to long-term sickness

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Rishi Sunak’s defence of private schools taken apart in single tweet

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2024

The only thing that really animates Rishi Sunak, the only topic he seems to get really passionate about, is his defence of private schools.

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